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minus-squareSaik0@lemmy.saik0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up137·6 months agoTo me this is even worse though. They’re using your electricity and CPU cycles to grab the data they want which lowers their bandwidth bills. It happening “locally” while still sending all the metadata home is just a slap in the face.
minus-squareNutWrench@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·6 months agoAlso, CoPilot is going to be bundled with Office 365, a subscription service. You’re literally paying them to spy on you.
minus-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·edit-26 months ago be microsoft, a whole bunch of greedy user-hostile fucks make spyware tell users that spyware is really cool and useful make them pay for the spyware use the spyware to get their data sell their data profit
minus-squarePlopp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·6 months agoCapitalism almost perfected.
minus-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 months ago create a monopoly on operating systems leverage your dominant market position and force everyone to use your spyware big profit
minus-squareDarkThoughts@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16·6 months agoExactly. And if I use or even pay for an external LLM service then that’s also my decision. But they force this scheme onto every user, whether they want it or not. It’s like the worst out of all possible scenarios.
To me this is even worse though. They’re using your electricity and CPU cycles to grab the data they want which lowers their bandwidth bills.
It happening “locally” while still sending all the metadata home is just a slap in the face.
Also, CoPilot is going to be bundled with Office 365, a subscription service. You’re literally paying them to spy on you.
Capitalism almost perfected.
Exactly. And if I use or even pay for an external LLM service then that’s also my decision. But they force this scheme onto every user, whether they want it or not. It’s like the worst out of all possible scenarios.